American Military News by Ryan Morgan June 22, 2021
Sen. Cotton says Navy teaching critical race theory ‘will promote hatred of US and divide Navy’
On Tuesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) questioned Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday, the top officer in the U.S. Navy, on his decision to include racially charged books like “How to be An Antiracist” and “The New Jim Crow” on the U.S. Navy’s official reading list. Cotton said those books are divisive and would not help the Navy regain its mission focus.
Cotton tweeted a video of his exchange with Gilday and said “The Navy has had genuine cultural problems and a lack of focus for years. Teaching Critical Race Theory will promote hatred of our country and divide the Navy even further.”
Cotton’s line of questioning followed similar questions for Gilday raised by fellow Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee last week. Cotton said that in a one-on-one phone call with the Gilday, the CNO shared the same answers with him that he had with his House colleagues, namely that questions about the inclusion of those two books were meant to characterize the Navy as weak, rather than address legitimate concerns about the service.
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